Synonyms for envy

noun

jealousy, resentment, covetousness, rivalry, ill-will, spite, grudge, malice, enviousness, grudgingness, jealous competition, jaundiced eye, discontent at another's good fortune, backbiting, cupidity, greed, bitterness, invidiousness, maliciousness, lack of Christian charity, one of the seven deadly sins, bad sportsmanship, mean-spiritedness, lusting after another's goods, coveting another's possessions, desiring, hankering, longing, begrudging, invidia (Latin), the green-eyed monster*.

verb

grudge, begrudge, covet, lust after, regard with envy, resent, have hard feelings toward, desire inordinately, crave, be envious of, feel resentful toward, hunger after, thirst after, desire, long for, yearn for, hanker after, be green with envy*.

to envy another is to feel ill will, jealousy, or discontent at the person's possession of something that one keenly desires to have or achieve oneself; begrudge implies an unwillingness that someone should possess or enjoy something that is needed or deserved; to covet is to long ardently and wrongfully for something that belongs to another

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